@@captainhuggyface6731 Seeing potential, we will never know but Joe is indeed watched over by guardians. Maybe he was a pure spirit and those who were killed by a corrupt one tried to save a pure one.
Unfortunately the Boston and Maine railroad doesn't exist anymore. They were sold and merged with CSX earlier this year. And technically the name of the railroad was changed to Pan Am railways before the sale. I herd about some of these ghost stories but not all of them, thanks for sharing. You should do another video on the tunnel, you can talk about how it was used as a bomb shelter during the cold war.
I am a railfanner and train enthusiast who lives in Massachusetts. I have visited this tunnel namy times and I have witnessed a phantom train horn and no train ever showed up. Nor were there was one down the line. No prime mover sound. Nothing. Thank you for captioning this!!
Woah,that’s awesome!Phantoms trains walkways creep me out-It’s like why are they there?Is it the spirit of the engine’s itself,Or the crew,or the residual energy?We’ll never know,I guess.
Have you ever thought about making longer videos more often? I know my opinion doesn’t matter much, but I personally like your longer videos far more than the shorter ones.
This story was honestly one of the creepier ones, all the psychological trauma that people went through when visiting the tunnel, and the amount of people that died while digging it, and the ways that the bodies would float up to the surface. But there was a wholesomeness in part of it when a ghost saved a mans life, twice. So far this is one of my favourites, keep these videos coming!
I went to college in North Adams, where the west portal of the Hoosac Tunnel is! Some friends went a ways inside a few times and said they had that same uneasy feeling like someone was there with them. I was never brave enough to go in, but my worries were more to do with freight trains than spirits.
If this might be of interest, I kind of know of one railway ghost story surrounding one of the stations on my local rail network, Sydney Trains, and that station being "Macquarie Fields" on the T8 Airport & South Line (btw, I don't live near the station or the line. I'm served by the T1 North Shore & Western Line) which has some truth to it but it appears the origin came from two separate incidents at the station. According to many that if you miss the last train out of Macquarie Fields, the spirit of teenage girl who missed the last train can be heard screaming with some saying she can be seen on the tracks. It's said she missed the last train and was murdered while trying to make her way home, with it being said to have occurred in the 1990s. Now, I done some digging and found two matches to the origins of the story, with one being the strongest connection. Oddly, both these stories happened at Macquarie Fields station, with news of the incident reaching Liverpool and even happening nearly 100 years apart. The first goes as follows: On 7th July 1906, a mentally unstable 42-year-old woman by the name of "Emily Hay Georgenson" was killed at Macquarie Fields station by an express train bound for Central station at 3:53pm. From the newspaper reporting the incident (this was before Mrs Georgenson was identified) reported "When near the platform, the driver noticed the woman attempt to cross in front of the engine (the class was never noted but I think it was a NSWGR P, later 32, class 4-6-0), too near to avert the accident, and the woman was knocked down and run over and literally cut to pieces." The crew of the locomotive reported the incident to station staff at Liverpool station a little further north up the line, before being let on their way while the death was investigated. The coroner ruled that it was not an accidental stumble and that Emily had committed suicide by throwing herself in front of the train. As for the teenager late at night part, this appears to have come from a 2006 incident (also at Macquarie Fields station) when on the 12th November that year, a 15-year-old boy was hit by a train at 11pm, which it took an hour to free him. He was taken to Liverpool Hospital but later died from his injuries at 3:30am Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT). As for the "1990s" part, I have no clue where it came from but it was known plenty of murders happened around Sydney during that time. Could the infamous "screaming teenage girl that haunts Macquarie Fields station" story be merely a hybrid of three real life stories combined to become one urban legend?
I live a bit south of the Hoosac Tunnel and grew up in the area and a lot of this lore, though not so greatly detailed, is part of the history of the area though is being sadly forgotten. Thanks for putting this video together on the subject.
My friend and I walked halfway through this tunnel, this was back in the mid 90's. It was Halloween night, we began about midnight and came back out about 2:30 am. we entered via the east portal. i remember driving over a very sketchy bridge in the middle of the woods, but i don't remember train tracks being on it. but then again, this was almost 30 years ago. definitely very spooky, and your eyes will play tricks on you. i remember every so often we'd come across a phone in the tunnel. we picked one up and only heard static (or maybe the voices of tortured souls). I think we made it to about the midway point, then we turned around. I can still remember the smell…smokey and musty.
Having worked for the B&M-ST railroad and having travelled thru that tunnel, the only spirits that inhibit it are bats, hundreds of bats. They kept trying to hit the headlights on the locomotive as we passed thru, none succeeded. The only Ghost Story amongst the Railroad crews was one of mystery candle that was seen from a distance inside the tunnel. From a distance, they say it kept jumping back and forth between the rails. When the train got to the point where the candle was, they say it was found on the ground, burning, no one present to have moved it. Again, it was a tale at best that sounds unfounded. The interior of that tunnel is Dark, Cold, Windy and filled with bats. It is 41/2 miles from east to west and the center has central shaft used for air ventilation.
Good video, though the Boston & Maine was absorbed into the Guilford Rail System in 1983, and now NS/CSX use the tunnel. (I wish the B&M was still around lol)
I've also heard stories about this place from railroad employees. I've been through it and have never seen anything personally, but no doubt strange things have gone on here over the years. When I was a kid and there was a signal problem in the tunnel the signal maintainer would say that Ringo was up to it again.
There was a signal maintainer for Guilford, he was called for a track light in the tunnel. He arrived at East Portal and put on in his Hi-Rail then headed westbound into the Bloody Pit. The maintainer made it to the signal, and quickly noted the uneasiness of the place around him. He did not feel safe, and soon kept seeing balls of light moving around further in the tunnel. The repair job was done quickly as possible so he get out of there. At one point the maintainer turned around to find a giant greenish/blue spectre standing right over him. The maintainer slammed his tools into the cab and raced backwards out of the tunnel. He drove straight to Billerica and quit on the spot.
Wow, second longest train of thought video. Also, idk why I’m talking about this but my friend thinks it’s weird that I can watch Thomas horror videos and stuff like this and not be scared when I’m literally scared of everything else.
I too find it weird, because I am the exact same way. Thomas stories and Folklore have never scared me, save one and I live in Illinois. I will never venture to Sleepy Hollow as the Horseman is a ghost I find truly frightening, may be why I am terrified of the dark when outside. Hate the Dark inside toop but that is not connected to a evil pumpkin thrower.
I’ve been to the Hoosac a number of times, I’ve heard the stories and refuse to go in there, even being near the portal just never feels right… as tragic as it’s past is, it’s intriguing to say the least, happy to hear about about a New England topic though, we got more than plenty if you’re looking, and good choice on the music by the way, never thought I’d hear shadow temple music from Ocarina of Time in a railroad video
the Boston and Maine Railroad went out of business in 1987. the current railroads to use the tunnel is Norfolk Southern and CSX. (coming from someone that lives in the state)
I find tunnels an eerie place but also magical in a strange way. Luckily in the UK there are tunnels, that are now disused and you can walk and cycle though them some of them.
For some reason, my entire family, including ones who live in Adams (The town where the tunnel is located), pronounce and spell it Hoosic. Also it's no longer owned by the Boston and Maine, atleast under that name. It's currently owned by CSX after buying Pan Am, the previous owner.
I'd hate to have to haunt that tunnel. It would just remind me of how I died in the first place. And if the only sound I could make was the sound of pain that would suck to. Although it would be cool to scare some people using that sound. All in all, a terrible way to go.
I'd heard the 'old' stories about this tunnel before, but not the more recent ones. Sadly the death toll was only typical of the times and place. No one knows how many Chinese were killed building the Central Pacific simply because no one at the time bothered keeping score - there were 'always plenty more where they came from.' This brings up a point I mentioned in your Kings Cross ghost story - the erratic nature of these occurence. My grandfather was a platelayer on the Trent Valley line between Colwich and Shugborough tunnel, whose approach was often used by people .... shall we say, anxious to see the next world. He, sadly, recovered a number of such tragedies, as well as seeing some of his men run down through momentary carelessness. But - no ghosts. What makes some spots more likely to be haunted than others? After all, similar tragedies, why not similar supernatural results? I don't know. Incidentally in Colwich churchyard, down by the canal, is an elaborate tomb erected over the grave of a navvie (described on the stone as a 'miner') killed during the tunnel's construction. And, on the opposite side of the churchyard is another stone to a father and son, both platelayers (track walkers, section hands or gandy dancers for US readers) who were killed in seperate accidents on the line locally during the 1850s.. Lest we forget, the old railways were dangerous places - the rules of safety are written in blood.
It is a very eerie feeling there. I went in to the tunnel a couple hundred feet. If you go in far enough the temperature stays the same all year round. Its a five mile tunnel that is not straight through. Quite an accomplishment for its time. Just dont go and take anything home with you. Dont touch anything
Pronounced "Whozick," Norfolk Southern primarily uses it, Pan Am Railway's does too. Not sure if they still do after they became part of CSX. Also incase anybody didn't know, it connects Florida Massachusetts to North Adams Massachusetts, and the line runs into Vermont after a few miles. Great stories though, I never really know that we had ghosts that close to where I live aha
An idea for a ghost Train video. The mystery children at Charfield. A crash between two trains on the 13th of October 1928 which resulted in casualties also had the bodies of two children that, to this day, no-one knows who they are, how they got on the train or if that were on the train in the first place.
Some people claim the 'Charfield children' never really existed - 'their' remains actually being the misidentified ones of a known passenger who was officially lost without trace. (The undertaker's assistant is reported as saying that some of the victims could have been buried in a shoebox with room to spare.) But - the fireman of the express said he saw the children sitting alone in the leading carriage at Birmingham New Street. You pays your money, you takes your choice. There's also the mystery of the 'veiled lady in black' who came to the grave site on each anniversary, but was never seen again after some journalists turned up in the hope of catching her.
I don't normally get spooked out by Spooopy ghost videos, but this one... This one got me and I had to stop watching. I think it was mostly the unsettling background music, great work as usual. Being in hospital right now probably doesn't help. Turn of the century American stuff is somehow by default spookier than the normal. Great work Mr Thought.
Last night I held an investigation of my own and I had reached the east entrance to the tunnel and i called out and asked if there was anybody there and right after I heard a faint hello from the abyss of the tunnel I quickly got out of there in fear.
I don't know it's possible or if someone is motivate to talk about the iron goat trail in Washington state,it's interesting for the ghosts haunting this place and the rule who change for the safety against the avalanche, I don't know I offer this idea. Oh yes, sorry for my English but I am from Switzerland and I speak french, sorry... But I love trains so much!
Wow Thats unsetteling i watch a youtuber named post 10 Who makes mostly abandoned structures in the wilderness exploration videos and he goes out to this tunnel in every video what a coinceidce its the same It is truly a small world
A contributor to the Hoosac Tunnel deaths was Alfred Nobel. He was the Swedish chemist who invented nitroglycerin. After 3 of his labs in Sweden blew up, killing many Swedes (including his brother), Nobel was banished from Sweden. He took up residence in France, but needed real work places to continue his work on nitroglycerin. And he needed those sites to be in barbaric areas of the world where no one important would care if others died. And there came the connection with the Hoosac Tunnel. Most of the workers were fresh immigrants who could die by the hundreds without stirring up trouble. They did, and later so did thousands upon thousands of young soldiers killed by Alfred Nobel's invention. Nobel made a fortune. His deathbed remorse resulted in the modern Nobel Prizes.
Nitroglycerin is useless as a military explosive - too sensitive so it can’t be fired from an explosive powered gun. That’s why nitrocellulose is used instead (sometimes with nitroglycerin mixed in with wax or petroleum jelly to reduce its sensitivity).
200 di ed! What in the world, I'd have thought after 13 people were lost in the tunnel disaster they'd maybe think about it but no that was just another Monday for this lot
Human life was cheaper back then, that sort of deathtoll on a major project was coomon - 96 where killed for example building the hoover dam. This is why we have Health and safety to keep the numbers down.
I Have had the dubious privilege of setting myself on FIRE, not ONCE but TWICE in the Hoosac. Later in this story, along with a tale of cannibalism.... I had the opportunity to work in the tunnel for a few months, back in the late 1980s. I was mechanic for a work crew installing supports for a future fiber optic cable system, and the North side of the tunnel was chosen for those support rods. The tunnel itself is a collection of different materials: while much of the original rock is visible, in areas of weakness or loose rock it was originally repaired with brick, and later with corrugated steel sheets. Our chore was to: A) Using a custom-erected scaffold on a flat car, it had generators, lighting, water tanks and pressure washers to ensure the tunnel walls were clean enough to allow engineers to examine the tunnel's structure, and lay out the spots to drill for the rods to be inserted. As you might surmise, this resulted in workers coming out absolutely black with soot, as the tunnel had never been cleaned since it's opening, and the resultant exhaust of steam and diesel engines coated it quite thick in places. B) Again using two flat-car mounted sets of pneumatic drills, along with generators, lighting and air compressors on connected trailers, we drilled horizontally in marked locations. a follow-up crew placed and secured the rods into the walls. All flat cars/mini trains were moved using High-railer trucks.. We entered the tunnel by the Massachusetts side, using the nearby town as our marshaling yard. Once we had clearance to work the track, we boarded High-railer trucks which are equipped with both regular tires and retractable steel rail wheels. The truck tires ran on the rails, they were narrower to allow for the rails being closer together than normal car road width. As part of the walls were lined with the corrugated sheet, I had as my particular chore the task of using a cutting torch to remove areas where indicated by the engineer's markings. My truck was equipped with the torches and any other equipment that would be required for on-site repairs and adjustments. In the process of this, my slightly tattered coveralls were ignited TWICE by sparks and molten metal. I would notice it after smelling the smoke and feeling my legs getting warmer...the tunnel was QUITE chilly, year 'round, as it was deep underground. Damp as well. Along the length of the tunnel are 'coffins', shallow cuts to allow anyone in the tunnel to duck into when trains come through. Initially, the tunnel was made wide enough for two trains to go through passing each other, but this was decided to be dangerous, as idiot passengers would stick their heads and arms out the windows of the train and get injured or even killed when two trains passed each other. At the time I worked in the tunnel, it has long been redone with a single track. What the narrator does NOT touch on is the first attempt to use a machine to drill out the tunnel! It was started from the New York side, and only got a few feet when it stalled and got PERMANENTLY stuck. It's still there to this day. Another item of interest is the blind mice. Grain trains to this day go through the tunnel. As some spills out due to leaks, the mice have evolved an ecosystem to take advantage of this. Since hundreds of generations of mice have grown in the tunnel, they have mostly lost use of their eyes due the the rather Stygian darkness...it is indeed quite black in there. The mice occasionally have to resort to cannibalism due to lack of food....
Ryan Grimm why do you refer to the Massachusetts side and New York side? The tunnel is entirely in Massachusetts. The western end being in North Adams and the eastern portal being in I believe Rowe or maybe Florida Massachusetts (I would have to look at a map) I grew up in nearby Williamstown and have been to the tunnel many times over the years and even went through it a couple times. (Sorry no ghost stories) I can assure you the tunnel is no where near New York
Why do i feel like these "hauntings" are just native american tribesmen who must live somewhere nearby trolling the workers or actually being decent people and saving their lives?
Whoever saved Joe, they were a great person
Yup, and they weren't his wife's reason for illness. Just came at a poor time.
i think whoever chose joe, had a good reason, but what
@@captainhuggyface6731 Seeing potential, we will never know but Joe is indeed watched over by guardians. Maybe he was a pure spirit and those who were killed by a corrupt one tried to save a pure one.
@Plokman040 or perhaps they didn't wish for him to be another fatality in that deadly tunnel
As a native of Massachusetts, I am disappointed that I never knew such an interesting piece of history.
Read my reply above for more...
I’m a native of Massachusetts too
Unfortunately the Boston and Maine railroad doesn't exist anymore. They were sold and merged with CSX earlier this year. And technically the name of the railroad was changed to Pan Am railways before the sale. I herd about some of these ghost stories but not all of them, thanks for sharing. You should do another video on the tunnel, you can talk about how it was used as a bomb shelter during the cold war.
I am a railfanner and train enthusiast who lives in Massachusetts. I have visited this tunnel namy times and I have witnessed a phantom train horn and no train ever showed up. Nor were there was one down the line. No prime mover sound. Nothing. Thank you for captioning this!!
Woah,that’s awesome!Phantoms trains walkways creep me out-It’s like why are they there?Is it the spirit of the engine’s itself,Or the crew,or the residual energy?We’ll never know,I guess.
@@ilikeminecraftgaming9331 I questioned that myself. I love anything paranormal. But Hoosac takes the cake for me.
love these spooky stories, keep em coming
Holy shit it's chrome
Have you ever thought about making longer videos more often? I know my opinion doesn’t matter much, but I personally like your longer videos far more than the shorter ones.
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Agreed, feels more complete. It's nice to have something with a decent length you can actually settle down with and enjoy
This story was honestly one of the creepier ones, all the psychological trauma that people went through when visiting the tunnel, and the amount of people that died while digging it, and the ways that the bodies would float up to the surface. But there was a wholesomeness in part of it when a ghost saved a mans life, twice.
So far this is one of my favourites, keep these videos coming!
I went to college in North Adams, where the west portal of the Hoosac Tunnel is! Some friends went a ways inside a few times and said they had that same uneasy feeling like someone was there with them. I was never brave enough to go in, but my worries were more to do with freight trains than spirits.
Its creepy I have gone inside deep
If this might be of interest, I kind of know of one railway ghost story surrounding one of the stations on my local rail network, Sydney Trains, and that station being "Macquarie Fields" on the T8 Airport & South Line (btw, I don't live near the station or the line. I'm served by the T1 North Shore & Western Line) which has some truth to it but it appears the origin came from two separate incidents at the station.
According to many that if you miss the last train out of Macquarie Fields, the spirit of teenage girl who missed the last train can be heard screaming with some saying she can be seen on the tracks. It's said she missed the last train and was murdered while trying to make her way home, with it being said to have occurred in the 1990s.
Now, I done some digging and found two matches to the origins of the story, with one being the strongest connection. Oddly, both these stories happened at Macquarie Fields station, with news of the incident reaching Liverpool and even happening nearly 100 years apart.
The first goes as follows: On 7th July 1906, a mentally unstable 42-year-old woman by the name of "Emily Hay Georgenson" was killed at Macquarie Fields station by an express train bound for Central station at 3:53pm. From the newspaper reporting the incident (this was before Mrs Georgenson was identified) reported "When near the platform, the driver noticed the woman attempt to cross in front of the engine (the class was never noted but I think it was a NSWGR P, later 32, class 4-6-0), too near to avert the accident, and the woman was knocked down and run over and literally cut to pieces." The crew of the locomotive reported the incident to station staff at Liverpool station a little further north up the line, before being let on their way while the death was investigated. The coroner ruled that it was not an accidental stumble and that Emily had committed suicide by throwing herself in front of the train.
As for the teenager late at night part, this appears to have come from a 2006 incident (also at Macquarie Fields station) when on the 12th November that year, a 15-year-old boy was hit by a train at 11pm, which it took an hour to free him. He was taken to Liverpool Hospital but later died from his injuries at 3:30am Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT).
As for the "1990s" part, I have no clue where it came from but it was known plenty of murders happened around Sydney during that time. Could the infamous "screaming teenage girl that haunts Macquarie Fields station" story be merely a hybrid of three real life stories combined to become one urban legend?
Definitely the scariest story so far.
The air shaft is a couple of miles into the 5 mile tunnel. Moving air makes noise.
I live a bit south of the Hoosac Tunnel and grew up in the area and a lot of this lore, though not so greatly detailed, is part of the history of the area though is being sadly forgotten. Thanks for putting this video together on the subject.
My friend and I walked halfway through this tunnel, this was back in the mid 90's. It was Halloween night, we began about midnight and came back out about 2:30 am. we entered via the east portal. i remember driving over a very sketchy bridge in the middle of the woods, but i don't remember train tracks being on it. but then again, this was almost 30 years ago. definitely very spooky, and your eyes will play tricks on you. i remember every so often we'd come across a phone in the tunnel. we picked one up and only heard static (or maybe the voices of tortured souls). I think we made it to about the midway point, then we turned around. I can still remember the smell…smokey and musty.
Yo shoutout to those miners that kept haunting the area till the last one of them was properly buried. Homies stick together in life and death
Having worked for the B&M-ST railroad and having travelled thru that tunnel, the only spirits that inhibit it are bats, hundreds of bats. They kept trying to hit the headlights on the locomotive as we passed thru, none succeeded. The only Ghost Story amongst the Railroad crews was one of mystery candle that was seen from a distance inside the tunnel. From a distance, they say it kept jumping back and forth between the rails. When the train got to the point where the candle was, they say it was found on the ground, burning, no one present to have moved it. Again, it was a tale at best that sounds unfounded. The interior of that tunnel is Dark, Cold, Windy and filled with bats. It is 41/2 miles from east to west and the center has central shaft used for air ventilation.
A candle or lantern?
Good video, though the Boston & Maine was absorbed into the Guilford Rail System in 1983, and now NS/CSX use the tunnel. (I wish the B&M was still around lol)
I've also heard stories about this place from railroad employees. I've been through it and have never seen anything personally, but no doubt strange things have gone on here over the years. When I was a kid and there was a signal problem in the tunnel the signal maintainer would say that Ringo was up to it again.
There was a signal maintainer for Guilford, he was called for a track light in the tunnel. He arrived at East Portal and put on in his Hi-Rail then headed westbound into the Bloody Pit. The maintainer made it to the signal, and quickly noted the uneasiness of the place around him. He did not feel safe, and soon kept seeing balls of light moving around further in the tunnel. The repair job was done quickly as possible so he get out of there. At one point the maintainer turned around to find a giant greenish/blue spectre standing right over him. The maintainer slammed his tools into the cab and raced backwards out of the tunnel. He drove straight to Billerica and quit on the spot.
Shiloh is pronounced Shy-low,
I would know that was my dogs name.
Asside from that 10/10 spooktacular
Shih low
“Bottom of the Well/Shadow Temple” from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Perfect!
Wow, second longest train of thought video. Also, idk why I’m talking about this but my friend thinks it’s weird that I can watch Thomas horror videos and stuff like this and not be scared when I’m literally scared of everything else.
I too find it weird, because I am the exact same way. Thomas stories and Folklore have never scared me, save one and I live in Illinois. I will never venture to Sleepy Hollow as the Horseman is a ghost I find truly frightening, may be why I am terrified of the dark when outside. Hate the Dark inside toop but that is not connected to a evil pumpkin thrower.
I’ve been to the Hoosac a number of times, I’ve heard the stories and refuse to go in there, even being near the portal just never feels right… as tragic as it’s past is, it’s intriguing to say the least, happy to hear about about a New England topic though, we got more than plenty if you’re looking, and good choice on the music by the way, never thought I’d hear shadow temple music from Ocarina of Time in a railroad video
the Boston and Maine Railroad went out of business in 1987. the current railroads to use the tunnel is Norfolk Southern and CSX. (coming from someone that lives in the state)
Your southern accent is goofy lol, lovely story!
take a breath. You speak brilliantly, I love your candor. It just feels rushed. pauses can be as effective as words.
I find tunnels an eerie place but also magical in a strange way. Luckily in the UK there are tunnels, that are now disused and you can walk and cycle though them some of them.
For some reason, my entire family, including ones who live in Adams (The town where the tunnel is located), pronounce and spell it Hoosic. Also it's no longer owned by the Boston and Maine, atleast under that name. It's currently owned by CSX after buying Pan Am, the previous owner.
I'd hate to have to haunt that tunnel. It would just remind me of how I died in the first place. And if the only sound I could make was the sound of pain that would suck to. Although it would be cool to scare some people using that sound. All in all, a terrible way to go.
I'd heard the 'old' stories about this tunnel before, but not the more recent ones. Sadly the death toll was only typical of the times and place. No one knows how many Chinese were killed building the Central Pacific simply because no one at the time bothered keeping score - there were 'always plenty more where they came from.' This brings up a point I mentioned in your Kings Cross ghost story - the erratic nature of these occurence. My grandfather was a platelayer on the Trent Valley line between Colwich and Shugborough tunnel, whose approach was often used by people .... shall we say, anxious to see the next world. He, sadly, recovered a number of such tragedies, as well as seeing some of his men run down through momentary carelessness. But - no ghosts. What makes some spots more likely to be haunted than others? After all, similar tragedies, why not similar supernatural results? I don't know.
Incidentally in Colwich churchyard, down by the canal, is an elaborate tomb erected over the grave of a navvie (described on the stone as a 'miner') killed during the tunnel's construction. And, on the opposite side of the churchyard is another stone to a father and son, both platelayers (track walkers, section hands or gandy dancers for US readers) who were killed in seperate accidents on the line locally during the 1850s.. Lest we forget, the old railways were dangerous places - the rules of safety are written in blood.
It is a very eerie feeling there. I went in to the tunnel a couple hundred feet. If you go in far enough the temperature stays the same all year round. Its a five mile tunnel that is not straight through. Quite an accomplishment for its time. Just dont go and take anything home with you. Dont touch anything
Pronounced "Whozick," Norfolk Southern primarily uses it, Pan Am Railway's does too. Not sure if they still do after they became part of CSX. Also incase anybody didn't know, it connects Florida Massachusetts to North Adams Massachusetts, and the line runs into Vermont after a few miles. Great stories though, I never really know that we had ghosts that close to where I live aha
Yo, this was told so well! Stellar work!
An idea for a ghost Train video.
The mystery children at Charfield.
A crash between two trains on the 13th of October 1928 which resulted in casualties also had the bodies of two children that, to this day, no-one knows who they are, how they got on the train or if that were on the train in the first place.
Some people claim the 'Charfield children' never really existed - 'their' remains actually being the misidentified ones of a known passenger who was officially lost without trace. (The undertaker's assistant is reported as saying that some of the victims could have been buried in a shoebox with room to spare.) But - the fireman of the express said he saw the children sitting alone in the leading carriage at Birmingham New Street. You pays your money, you takes your choice. There's also the mystery of the 'veiled lady in black' who came to the grave site on each anniversary, but was never seen again after some journalists turned up in the hope of catching her.
I really like these halloween themed episodes. I enjoy learning about the myths and ledgends that surround the railroads it's cool
I don't normally get spooked out by Spooopy ghost videos, but this one... This one got me and I had to stop watching. I think it was mostly the unsettling background music, great work as usual. Being in hospital right now probably doesn't help. Turn of the century American stuff is somehow by default spookier than the normal.
Great work Mr Thought.
While listening to this, I was playing a Roblox game where I was driving a locomotive in a mine. it was kinda eerie to listen to this while playing
Loving these ghost stories. Looking forward to the next one!
Small question, could you one day make a video about the túnel del Bierzo disaster,please?
Really enjoying this series, is there anywhere I can submit one I heard at work?
PBS's Building Big 5 parter from 2002 introduced me to Hoosac, fascinating place.
I think I've found a new channel to subscribe to...!
EEUGH-- This was genuinely unnerving... Good work, though!
I went into the tunnel... Partially and it was cold. The water run off on the east end was interesting
It's kinda funny hearing you attempt a sort of southern accent when reading the letter.
I love strange railway history like this
Sounds like that mountain demanded a high price.
Can you please talk about the brazillian legend. "The lady in white?"
Your Southern American accent sounds pretty convincing!
...why didn't you until 31st October to publish this story? 😉
Paul Travers? Wasn't he the commander of Zero-X?
Last night I held an investigation of my own and I had reached the east entrance to the tunnel and i called out and asked if there was anybody there and right after I heard a faint hello from the abyss of the tunnel I quickly got out of there in fear.
😳 i’m a native of Massachusetts I’m never visiting this tunnel even though I love visiting train tunnels
Probably shouldn't have watched this right before bed
Great work ToT!
Whenever I tell people about this story, I always mention how people drowned while building it.
Drowned.
While building a railroad tunnel.
Without a doubt that one was the scariest thus far
I don't know it's possible or if someone is motivate to talk about the iron goat trail in Washington state,it's interesting for the ghosts haunting this place and the rule who change for the safety against the avalanche, I don't know I offer this idea. Oh yes, sorry for my English but I am from Switzerland and I speak french, sorry... But I love trains so much!
Wow Thats unsetteling i watch a youtuber named post 10 Who makes mostly abandoned structures in the wilderness exploration videos and he goes out to this tunnel in every video what a coinceidce its the same It is truly a small world
I love this series!
"Sha-Low" ...that like Shlomo?. But seriously, your narration voice is fine. Don't try to over egg the custard.
great ghost story 👻😮
i love these stories!
The more i watch these video's the more i star to believe in ghosts especially this video
Jeez, this is in Massachusetts. A Yankee/Hudson valley rural accent might be more appropriate instead of that crazy midsouthern drawl.
Good solidarity on the miners, refusing to rest until all had been buried.
A contributor to the Hoosac Tunnel deaths was Alfred Nobel. He was the Swedish chemist who invented nitroglycerin. After 3 of his labs in Sweden blew up, killing many Swedes (including his brother), Nobel was banished from Sweden. He took up residence in France, but needed real work places to continue his work on nitroglycerin. And he needed those sites to be in barbaric areas of the world where no one important would care if others died. And there came the connection with the Hoosac Tunnel. Most of the workers were fresh immigrants who could die by the hundreds without stirring up trouble. They did, and later so did thousands upon thousands of young soldiers killed by Alfred Nobel's invention. Nobel made a fortune. His deathbed remorse resulted in the modern Nobel Prizes.
Nitroglycerin is useless as a military explosive - too sensitive so it can’t be fired from an explosive powered gun. That’s why nitrocellulose is used instead (sometimes with nitroglycerin mixed in with wax or petroleum jelly to reduce its sensitivity).
Where is this tunnel located at
Season of the witch ! Liveing thease 👍👍👍
Do i hear Zelda dungeon music . . . . . . I approve.
fair
yeah
fair
Is it just me, or are the stories getting creepier as it gets closer to Halloween
U should do a video about the Zanetti train
Is that the Shadow Temple OST from Ocarina of Time? 👀
Ah yes, I knew the Hoosac was coming up at some point.
Why has no one tried sending a Priest in to do an Exorcism?
It's a train tunnel, an active one.
200 di ed! What in the world, I'd have thought after 13 people were lost in the tunnel disaster they'd maybe think about it but no that was just another Monday for this lot
Human life was cheaper back then, that sort of deathtoll on a major project was coomon - 96 where killed for example building the hoover dam. This is why we have Health and safety to keep the numbers down.
where is the tunnel?
Sensory deprivation.
It was really interesting until we got to shell! Then I quit!
This was a good'un! Sweet dreams kids. 🎃👻😨
Scary Stuff!!
Thanks
I prefer your longer videos
Oh my god
Hey, the Zelda music is back
Very Confusing but I'm sure it Happened years Ago
You know what some people use a pile of rocks for? To mark a grave.
i,m never railfanning this tunnel
New sub!
I Have had the dubious privilege of setting myself on FIRE, not ONCE but TWICE in the Hoosac. Later in this story, along with a tale of cannibalism....
I had the opportunity to work in the tunnel for a few months, back in the late 1980s. I was mechanic for a work crew installing supports for a future fiber optic cable system, and the North side of the tunnel was chosen for those support rods.
The tunnel itself is a collection of different materials: while much of the original rock is visible, in areas of weakness or loose rock it was originally repaired with brick, and later with corrugated steel sheets.
Our chore was to:
A) Using a custom-erected scaffold on a flat car, it had generators, lighting, water tanks and pressure washers to ensure the tunnel walls were clean enough to allow engineers to examine the tunnel's structure, and lay out the spots to drill for the rods to be inserted. As you might surmise, this resulted in workers coming out absolutely black with soot, as the tunnel had never been cleaned since it's opening, and the resultant exhaust of steam and diesel engines coated it quite thick in places.
B) Again using two flat-car mounted sets of pneumatic drills, along with generators, lighting and air compressors on connected trailers, we drilled horizontally in marked locations. a follow-up crew placed and secured the rods into the walls.
All flat cars/mini trains were moved using High-railer trucks..
We entered the tunnel by the Massachusetts side, using the nearby town as our marshaling yard. Once we had clearance to work the track, we boarded High-railer trucks which are equipped with both regular tires and retractable steel rail wheels. The truck tires ran on the rails, they were narrower to allow for the rails being closer together than normal car road width.
As part of the walls were lined with the corrugated sheet, I had as my particular chore the task of using a cutting torch to remove areas where indicated by the engineer's markings. My truck was equipped with the torches and any other equipment that would be required for on-site repairs and adjustments.
In the process of this, my slightly tattered coveralls were ignited TWICE by sparks and molten metal. I would notice it after smelling the smoke and feeling my legs getting warmer...the tunnel was QUITE chilly, year 'round, as it was deep underground. Damp as well.
Along the length of the tunnel are 'coffins', shallow cuts to allow anyone in the tunnel to duck into when trains come through. Initially, the tunnel was made wide enough for two trains to go through passing each other, but this was decided to be dangerous, as idiot passengers would stick their heads and arms out the windows of the train and get injured or even killed when two trains passed each other.
At the time I worked in the tunnel, it has long been redone with a single track.
What the narrator does NOT touch on is the first attempt to use a machine to drill out the tunnel! It was started from the New York side, and only got a few feet when it stalled and got PERMANENTLY stuck. It's still there to this day.
Another item of interest is the blind mice.
Grain trains to this day go through the tunnel. As some spills out due to leaks, the mice have evolved an ecosystem to take advantage of this. Since hundreds of generations of mice have grown in the tunnel, they have mostly lost use of their eyes due the the rather Stygian darkness...it is indeed quite black in there.
The mice occasionally have to resort to cannibalism due to lack of food....
Is that drill tunnel the choked up hole visible in the left of the thumbnail?
Fascinating reply. I hope more people read it.
@@zacharyrollick6169 Yes..if you clamber over/past some fallen rock, the machine is still in there.
@@ryangrimm9305 fascinating
Ryan Grimm why do you refer to the Massachusetts side and New York side? The tunnel is entirely in Massachusetts. The western end being in North Adams and the eastern portal being in I believe Rowe or maybe Florida Massachusetts (I would have to look at a map) I grew up in nearby Williamstown and have been to the tunnel many times over the years and even went through it a couple times. (Sorry no ghost stories) I can assure you the tunnel is no where near New York
How is your American accent so good?
It’s pronounced SHY-low (Shiloh).
I don't believe in ghosts, but I wouldn't mind going there.
What the heck accent was THAT?
i love these
Why did you use a southern accent for people from Massachusetts 😂?
Featured on the second episode of Ghost Adventures.
I had an ancestor that helped build this tunnel infact it's not far from where I am
Weird!
Why do i feel like these "hauntings" are just native american tribesmen who must live somewhere nearby trolling the workers or actually being decent people and saving their lives?
2:56 heh.. shello (shy-low) I live not in thee Shiloh but a Shiloh and Im calling it Shello now .